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Sea disasters and regard for seafarers

by | Jan 30, 2015 | Marine Accidents and Safety, Seafarers' Rights and Welfare

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Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth
Oil on canvass, circa 1842, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

“He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea,” wrote the 17th-century British poet and priest, George Herbert. Those words ring louder following the spate of sea disasters that greeted the start of 2015. Unlike other writers, we won’t ask why maritime accidents still happen or how shipping can be made safer. Let the IMO bigwigs and self-styled marine safety gurus wrestle with those issues. We’ll just ask one simple question: If the sea remains a dangerous place and seafaring a dangerous profession, how come there isn’t more empathy toward seamen? (more…)

Maritime ironies of our time (Part II)

by | Mar 9, 2011 | Latest Post

The first in Asia to launch a nationalist revolution, Filipinos are the most Westernised amongst Asian peoples, English-speaking and predominantly Christian unlike the rest of the region. They have one of the highest literacy rates and are host to the Asian Institute of Management, yet the economy lags behind some countries that send students to the Makati City-based AIM. They taught the Thais and the Vietnamese the modern way of planting rice, and now they import rice from them. Irony abounds even in the local maritime sector: (more…)

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